Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-20
NO LIGHT On THE mYSrERY.
Ihe Coroner Begins the Investigation
Of the Halfway Murder.

The inquest into the Railway murder was begun
yesterday. The first witness was Alfred Worth
who discovered the body at $780, on the morning
OF March % He said he lived two blocks from
the scene Of the murder, and that AFTER finding
the girl and calling her several times, he turned
back, met his brother Irving, and together they
approached the girl and found ner dead with her
throat cut. They then notified their brothers
Frank and Thomas and shortly afterward the
four men gave the alarm to the police. The i'm
portant feature OF Worths testimony was the
statement that when he first came up to the scene
he plainly saw footprints in the mud like those OF
man and woman As the mud was frozen hard
the prints must have been made the night before,
TIE ground not beginning to soften until after II
light wagon, or buggy. on the sidewalk portion OF
the road, close beside the body. BENJAMIN Metz
gar testified to finding the knife with which il is
thought the murder was done. Its blade and
handle and the grass about the spot where 1t lay
were smeared with bright blood.
fence which was close to the spot where the head
OF the murdered girl lay. He stopped work at
OF the murder. He did not see anything unusual.
saw no strangers, and believed the wagon tracks
about the scene were those made by his own
discovery. He was sure he made some footprints
about the scene, and thinks he saw his own there
when he viewed the body on the ground the next
day, but was certain there were other plain foot
prints besides his and his assistants
DIT. Victor Mrsviag. of Elizabeth, who assisted at
the autopsy, said the body was that or female,
nve feet two inches In height, perhaps 25 years
old. with light brown hair and blue eyes. The au-
topSy showed that the girl had come to her death
by stab or cut that commenced at the right side
OF the throat, cutting the windpipe clear through
In two places. severng the jugular vein and caus-
numerous cuts and bruises about the face. bruises
on the arm and two cuts on the inner Surface OF
the left hand. The examination proved that the
girl had not been criminaliy assaulted, and that
she had never been a mother There were two
marks on her body that might help 10 identify her
one being the round white scar two inches in d.
ameter just below the right knee the OF ner being
roundiSh scar on the left side OF the neck about
an inch and half behind and about an inch be-
low the left angle OF the lower Jaw. There were
no other marks on the body.
WITNESS WHO CAUSED SMALL SENSATION.
W. E Rubeck, an employee at BloodgOods mills,
was called. Mr.. Rubeck surprised everybody by
stating that he came upon the body about quarter
past six on the morning OF March 10, before the
worth Bros, and was frightened at the sight and
ran away His impression was that the girl was
either murdered or drunk. He turned up Jefferson
avenue, and meeting Mr. keefe, told him or the
discovery. Mr.. Keefe then rose to say that
Rubeck had told him something about the girls
hat being in the gutter, and Rubeck contradicted
him Rubeck lives about eight minutes walk
from the murder scene. He went TO bed on the
night OF the murder about nine O'Clock. His wife
was absent, and ne did not know what time she
came home that night. Burt Harnett slept In his
house.
The coroner expressed his opinion that Ruoeck
knew more OF the case than he was willing TO tell
he was put In charge Of an ocer and held for FUR
Their examination.
he was of the early arrivals the scene; that
he heard dogs barking about 10 O'Clock on the
night OF the murder; that Sadie vanness, who
boards at his house, told his wife that she saw q
strange man on the evening Of the murder near
Central avenue. Rubeck was then recalled and
his statement was read TO him, after which he
was again put in charge OF an officer, but after q
private hearing was released. The coroner adj
Journed the meeting until Thursday morning.